Academic Fellowships
Academic Fellowships provide opportunities to prepare a PhD or post-doctoral fellowship grant application.
They are suitable for.
- Early career applicants who are about to complete or who have completed Specialist Training for General Practice within the preceding 3 years WTE (in other words, we will take account of career breaks and part-time working when calculating this). Early career applicants can request academic time up to 0.8 FTE.
- Post-doctoral applicants intending to apply for a post-doctoral research fellowship. Post-doctoral applicants should be GPs who are about to complete or are within one year of completion of a higher degree (PhD or MD). For these applicants, time since CCT is not applied. Post-doctoral applicants can only request academic time of 0.2FTE.
Medical School Primary Care Departments
- https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/research/profiles/p.murchie#research
- https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/kevin-mcconville
- https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/primary-care-multimorbidity/clinical-academic-pathways-for-gps
- https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/
- https://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/pbs/research/#Primary_care
These are administered by the Scottish School of Primary Care on behalf of the five Scottish Medical School Primary Care departments and NHS Education for Scotland.
Recruitment will probably start in April 2026 with interviews most likely in May 2026, for a start date of 1st August.
Please see the SSPC website for more information
https://sspc.ac.uk/research_trainingemployment_opportunities/
or contact SSPC directly info@sspc.ac.uk.
This page was last updated on: 09.03.2026 at 14.54